Last night I had the privilege to be invited to a local organizing meeting with a representative from Organizing for America (OFA). There were about seven of us in addition to him, all of us rabid Obama campaign workers who had participated in our local South Bay (Manhattan Beach, CA) phone bank and gone to Nevada during the general election campaign. At last I see light at the end of the tunnel to fight these stupid teabagger/mob/wing-nut tinfoil hats.
We can use the infrastructure of the campaign to mobilize again.
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Using the infrastructure put in place during the campaign, such as Vote builder software, volunteer lists, organization structure, etc., the Organizing for America (which is essentially the guts of the Obama Campaign for the most part) is going to start organizing the left in order to demonstrate to the media that WE have the numbers and WE have the power and WE have the will to push health care through. Apparently the White House has decided that enough is enough and to call out the big guns. It is about time!
Some of the tasks we will have is to call and mobilize volunteers to show up at the town hall forums so that we outnumber the idiots, and to demonstrate to the media by a show of presence, classy behavior, intelligent discussion, etc that the bulk of America wants a real debate on this and wants a strong public option and that these others are truly the "lunatic fringe." Some of it may be phone banking to regional Obama voters to discuss the health care plan, to encourage them to call their Congressional representatives and Senators to let their voices be heard. Some may even be calling to Blue Dog states to get those folks a little riled up so that they'll make their own calls.
Whatever is required, we will do. Just as in the general election, we do not have the luxury of sitting back and bitching and moaning about what Obama should do, or what Congress should do. We must once again mobilize and "leave it all on the road" to defeat the powerful Corporate interests that are the health care companies and the drug companies and the right wing media who want us all to be uneducated, uninformed, and unhealthy sheep that they can more easily control.
Phone banks every Wednesday and Saturday will now be at my house. If you're in the South Bay of Los Angeles, contact me for directions.
If you're not, contact OFA and leave it all on your own road.
Remember --We are the change we were looking for. Start phonebanking again. Make a difference. Make it happen. Overcome the mob. We are greater than "even" with them -- we are better, we are stronger, YES WE CAN!
(P.S. I did a search and didn't see anything about this -- if it has been diaried before, forgive -- I've been crazy busy with work the last few weeks and haven't been on Kos much.)